Fashion Designer

A. Collaborative Design

Roles & Responsibilities Identifying the right partner customers based on their alignment with our fashion, values, collaborative abilities, calendar and creating pitches customized to them.

Designing into aesthetics, price points (that serve Creatnet + Customers + Vendors), timelines, environmental balance

Help the customer build a brief to meet our checklist

Managing customer accounts : design aesthetic, price points, core materials, design / production calendar. Collaborating with BU head to create customer wise a) Fabric Bracket b) CMTP bracket c) YY (80%)

Plugging in India’s capabilities, adding value through sourcing and designing

Create lookbooks & market materials to support new customer onboarding

Key Result Area Hit Rates of designs

Ability to retain customers

Customer Satisfaction Assessment

Key Initiatives  Creating a directory of fabrics : Core, Trend based experiments, maintaining marketing kits

Competency Operate as intrapreneurs, responsible for the BU

Designing into pricing

Technical design : reducing waste / consumption,

Storytelling the creation process highlighting themes of collaboration & India

Thinking through and Planning the calendar that integrates all the roles in collaboration with BUL

B. Facilitating Design to Production

Roles & Responsibilities Accountable for collaborative design process in Product Development : enable the collaboration of Material Merchants(trims-fabric), Technicians, to ensure price points , vendor briefing & relations, productivity, customer needs and timelines at Product Development stage.

Managing customer relationships through communication during the product development  process. (Updates, clarifications, production feasibility / sustainability suggestions,

Act as a consultant, post the PO milestone is achieved

Handover success measures?

Key Result Area PD timeliness : plan for calendar (customer & vendor) and quality

Ensuring timely delivery through Weekly Design / Sales WIPs : with pre updations and MOMS

Competency Technicians and Designers to collaborate+operate as ‘Technical Designers’

C. Financial Responsibility

Roles & Responsibilities Having a financial acumen to understand revenue goal and plan accordingly

Managing gross margins : Upon receiving the tech pack, having a clear picture / plan of the interlinkage between the revenue goals x groups x garments x amount x price x cost x timelines

Designing into Sales & Growth : Meeting financial goals : designing the right amount of groups for the right amount of customers.

Key Result Area

Financial goal fulfillment : Creating Sales Sheet in collaboration with BUL and meeting the stated goals

Salary : 50-55k

Experience : 3-5 years